Archive for August, 2016

Breathtaking |The Economist

Friday, August 12th, 2016

Breathtaking http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21702743-air-quality-indices-make-pollution-seem-less-bad-it-breathtaking Air quality in big cities may cut ~1 year from life expectancy. London significantly worse than NYC

Developmental macaque atlas

Friday, August 12th, 2016

Additionally, the Allen Institute recently published a nice paper in Nature with findings generated from the non-human primate atlas. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v535/n7612/full/nature18637.html

Comprehensive map of primate brain development published in Nature

Friday, August 12th, 2016

https://www.alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/news-press/press-releases/comprehensive-map-primate-brain-development-published-nature

MacBook Pro Lineup Set For ‘Most Significant Overhaul in Over 4 Years’ – Mac Rumors

Thursday, August 11th, 2016

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/10/macbook-pro-lineup-overhaul-4-years/

Park Hyatt on 57th

Monday, August 8th, 2016

http://newyork.park.hyatt.com/en/hotel/dining/restaurant-in-new-york-living-room.html

Th-Sa ’till 1a, Su-W ’till 12a

Gotta name them all: how Pokémon can transform taxonomy : Nature News & Comment

Monday, August 8th, 2016

http://www.nature.com/news/gotta-name-them-all-how-pok%C3%A9mon-can-transform-taxonomy-1.20275

We’re in a Low-Growth World. How Did We Get Here? – The New York Times

Monday, August 8th, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/upshot/were-in-a-low-growth-world-how-did-we-get-here.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2016 – tecosystems

Sunday, August 7th, 2016

.@RedMonk Programming Language Rankings
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/07/20/language-rankings-6-16/ Now in a period of little change after an initial “Cambrian” diversification

The Big Fight Over Fossils

Sunday, August 7th, 2016

Big Fight Over Fossils
http://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/lee-berger-digs-for-bones-and-glory #Paleoanthropology issues: open v closed data, scholarship v showmanship. Genomics parallels

Allele-specific transcription factor binding in liver and cervix cells unveils many likely drivers of GWAS signals. – PubMed – NCBI

Sunday, August 7th, 2016

Allele-specific TF binding in liver & cervix cells [HepG2 & HeLa] unveils many likely drivers of GWAS [SNP] signals
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0888754316300271